Venice

Pros: Most glorious walks. And the most quiet walks. No cars or scooters to deal with.
Cons: Can flood in the spring.

My wife and I closed our two week plus vacation of Italy with four days in Venice. In Rome we cabbed it around town. We rented a car and toured the Tuscany area and then turned in the rental to spend a few days in Florence with a side trip to Pisa. From ...

Pros: Great food, beautiful sights, close to a beach, nice people, very unique
Cons: Can be expensive

I just returned from three of the best days of my life spent in wonderful, beautiful, Venice. My new life plan is to learn Italian, move there, and operate a gelato stand with my husband for the rest of my life. In the meantime, I am excited to ...

Pros: Gondola ride, Torcello, just seeing this unique city
Cons: Crowds, nasty winter weather, amazingly bad food for Italy

It stinks. It doesn't stink. It's beautiful. It's decrepit. The flooding is awful. The locals cope with flooding all the time - so can visitors. It's overrated and overrun with tourists. It's a unique, must-see destination in Italy. Prices are ...

Pros: A visit during the Carnival season offers unique travel/cultural experiences
Cons: The weather is unpredictable

Venice (the “Pearl of the Adriatic") is one of those magical travel destinations like Paris, Barcelona, and New Orleans that amazingly live up to their romantic depictions, especially if you visit at the right time. If you travel to Venice in the summer...

Pros: An enchanting city, lovely for walks.
Cons: None that I could see in my six hours or so.

Before going to Italy in September 2003, I read many reviews on Venice at Epinions and if you want to read the most helpful review in my opinion please read Grad’s review: ...

Pros: Unique City. Gondola Ride was Nice.
Cons: Pollution.

Seeing pictures of Venice is a lot different from being there. The pictures that I have seen depict a beautiful, magical, scenic city. In reality, the city is definitely beautiful. However, the water is filthy, and many times during the walk through...

Pros: A unique place with a magic atmosphere
Cons: Many, but they all fade quickly from one's memory

The legends claim that, after the fall of the Roman Empire, around the 5th century AD, the inhabitants of the Po valley searched refuge amidst the swamps of the Venetian lagoon, to escape the bands of the barbaric Germanic tribes which swept through the ...

Pros: architecture,mystery,hotels,gelato
Cons: tour groups,food

Venice truly is an enigma. It can at the same time be tacky,touristy,overcrowded ,and dirty,yet eccentric,romantic,mysterious and wonderful. And these are all emotions I had in one day!
Upon arrival,our first time in Venice, we took the...

Pros: Lots of Wonderful Flavors!
Cons: Lots of Calories!

The Journal Entry

While it is one of the most beautiful cities in Italy, Venice is not always know for having the best food at reasonable prices. There is however one cheap indulgence that everyone must partake in: gelato. A frozen...

Pros: an absolutely stunning city!
Cons: expensive...

My parents, my brother and I went to Italy a few years ago (1994). The trip was supposed to save my parent's marriage... well, it didn't but the trip was wonderful. We've spent the first few days in Venice. This is what I remember from that trip.
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Pros: Great Food, Great Booze, Good Company
Cons: Can't be a teetotaler

Before I start this review, the first in a soon to be epic series, I feel that both the history and purpose of Il Diario Di Venezia(The Venetian Diary). To start with the former, I am lucky enough to be working here in Venice all summer as an...

Pros: Easily one of the most captivating cities in the entire world.
Cons: Some of the nastiest smelling and tasting seafood I've ever been served.

Part 1: In which the importance of marrying an intelligent woman raised in a Spanish-speaking household is made clear

Kudos to Mrs. Sloucho. Allow me to stress the fact that this trip was all her doing and that it ran like clockwork....

Pros: Elegant and Spectacular Dinner With a View
Cons: Expensive

Every person, if he's lucky, has a few meals in his life which transcend the normal eating experience, where the culinary and the religious blend for a short window of time over a restaurant somewhere in the world. I had one of those moments of...

Pros: Beauty visualized and projected
Cons: Are you kidding? None (ok I'm sure there must be)

Let me tell you something old and new. I just love Venice. I really do.

The first time I visited, I was sixteen years old, but what can you appreciate at that age. Maybe just the ice cream, if that, and let’s face it there are other ice...

Pros: Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace), walking around in a unique city
Cons: Expensive accommodation, the city is a bit "small"

A short summary This is a travelogue about the trip that my wife, Nikki, and I took to Italy ...